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Rachel Zegler Says She Grew Up Without Latina Representation?

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

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4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

‘Snow White’ actress Rachel Zegler says she grew up without Latina representation among celebrities who were the beauty standard bearers of the time. Now a video fact checking her is going viral. Let’s talk about it.


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When I was younger, my approach to beauty was a lot more shaped by what I was witnessing in big pieces of media.

0:39.4

So it was who was on magazine covers, who was in the beauty commercials, who was in movies,

0:46.0

and was considered like the most beautiful movie star at the time.

0:48.6

It was definitely very Eurocentric as I was growing up.

0:53.3

Rachel Zegler is playing the victim yet again, this time on representation.

0:56.9

And she's getting fact-checked in real time because the narrative that she tries to spin

1:01.4

about Latin representation in film and media is not true.

1:05.6

Let's talk about it.

1:06.5

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1:17.0

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1:20.7

Today, we're headed back to Rachel Zegler for just a moment because she's going viral online for something she said in a Harper's Bazaar interview where she's talking about

1:25.5

beauty and fashion and makeup and the topic of representation

1:29.1

comes up. And she leads the audience to believe that there wasn't a lot of Latina

1:34.3

representation in media, in movies, magazines, music when she was growing up. Except that's

1:40.7

kind of weird because Rachel Ziegler was born in 2001. She's even younger than I am.

1:46.2

I remember a whole lot of Latino representation. It's weird that she doesn't. And in this video,

1:51.3

she's going to get fact checked in real time with all the representation, just showing up around her

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